1000 years ago, Angela met her fated mate, a Vampire Born. He promised to be back in a week, he had to set up their home and prepare his family for his witch mate. Only, he never showed. With the help of her sister, she finds him... in the arms of another. Together, Angela and her coven cast a curse that would forever change the world in ways they never imagined. While Carrie and her mates work to find peace with the human government, to find a way to work together to overthrow Curtis, Grace faces odds she never saw coming. She made the choice to follow her visions, but what will it cost her in the end? Can she continue to play spy, to throw wrenches in well oiled plans, all without being caught? Alpha Andrew Hill spent his life protecting his pack and his country, now his loyalty is called into question. Not only to the people he served his whole life, but to a woman he had never met. A young woman who depends on him to keep her grounded in the...

Trust no one.It is six months since the Arcadia set sail for the first time in forty years. But this wasn't the freedom the inhabitants were hoping for. Esther Crossland did what she had to do, but it has left a trail of destruction in her wake. Now the wrecked ship is abandoned. Its inhabitants are in exile, trapped in sprawling make-shift shelters made up of warehouse, tents, shipping containers. Esther and Nik, architects of the rebellion, are on the run. Esther is in hiding, desperate to do something to help her people, and Nik seems to have abandoned all hope, on a journey taking him further and further from home. And neither of them want to face up to their true feelings about one another . . .Not only that, there is a new villain in town. With the fall of Commander Hadley, it's left to the ruthless Admiral Janek to deal with the traitors, and her own past is beginning to catch-up with her.Then the shaky ceasefire negotiated by General Lall,...

Near the small town of Second Chance, West Virginia, in the year 1962, the world appears blissfully simple for two-year-old Laney Mae Martin. However, tragedy strikes when her father, Gil, perishes in a fatal car crash alongside another woman, whose life is also cut short. This shocking event shatters Laney Mae's idyllic existence, leaving her life in disarray. In a fit of humiliation, her mother, Faye, erases every trace of Gil, including cherished photographs, and swears never to utter his name again. Laney Mae and her older brother Neal are uprooted from their familiar surroundings, forced to face an unwelcoming reception, and endure merciless mockery in the suburbs of Washington, DC, where they are branded as "hillbillies."The turmoil intensifies as a deranged housekeeper and later an abusive stepfather inflict lasting emotional scars upon Laney Mae. Neglected and lonely, the young girl spirals further away from reality. Seeking...

A tense novel from a fast-rising star, Sam Holland, The Twenty fuses a chilling race-against-time with blood-curdling crime fiction. For fans of Harlan Coben and Thomas Harris, Sam Holland offers readers a page-turning serial killer thriller with “echoes of Lisa Gardner” (AJ Finn, #1 NYT bestselling author, on The Echo Man).When DCI Adam Bishop arrives at the crime scene in the dead of night, the sight of the body is bad enough—but what Adam notices next chills him to his core. More bodies surface. And the spray-painted numbers daubed above the corpses reveal the horrific truth: the killer is counting down. But to what end?Adam has no idea—until Dr. Romilly Cole knocks on his door with damning evidence pointing to a series of murders twenty five years earlier—a case she knows intimately from her past. Now, it’s personal—and the next knock on his door could be fatal.Sam Holland’s gripping debut...

Australian Matildas and World Cup superstar Sam Kerr teams up with Aki Fukuoka to bring young readers this fun and inspiring illustrated series about soccer, school, sport, friendship, dealing with bullies and following your dreams. The 2006 World Cup is around the corner and thirteen-year-old Sam Kerr is pumped! Even though the games are being played on the other side of the world, Sam and her best friend, Dylan, are planning to get up early to watch the games live on TV. They couldn't be more excited! But there's more for Sam to get excited about when she's invited to trial for a rep soccer team; the coach of the team has seen Sam play and is blown away by how good she is. Sam is thrilled when she gets into the team, then she realises she has to juggle training with the Knights AND with her new rep team. And when her mum and dad organise a family holiday interstate it looks like Sam might have to miss out because of her new timetable. Sam starts to...

In this lyrical historical fiction withalternating points of view, a repressed woman begins an ancestral quest throughthe prairies of Iowa, awakening family secrets and herself, while in the late1800s, a repressed ancestor, Tante Kate, creates those secrets.As Van Reinhardt clears out her dead father's belongings, she comes acrosshints of an unsettling family history, along with a request penned by herfather prior to his death that sends her on a genealogical quest. Examining a1900 family portrait of her German immigrant ancestors, Van curiosity growsabout one of the children portrayed there.In the 1870s,Kate is a German immigrant newly arrived in America with only her brother asfamily. Life changes for Kate when she and her brother split. When she returns,armed with a secret, nothing is the same, for her or her brother. Together theytry to forge a life working for farmers in southwestern Iowa and at Kate'surging, her brother takes the farmer's...

Is it possible for a terrorist group to secretly " weaponize" the most anticipated new electronic video game? And on the night of its nationwide launch, will thousands of unsuspecting kids and their parents be slaughtered? These questions haunt Blair Anderson, the game' s distributor; and he alone can possibly uncover the truth and prevent the carnage. But that' s only for starters. Anderson' s daughter has been kidnapped and unless he cooperates, she' ll be tortured in the worst imaginable way. Blair can save her, or stop the terrorists – not both; and he has scant minutes to decide.

Will Rogue be the one horse for whom Ann and Jim have to admit defeat? Ann and Jim Henderson have bred two very different horses. Sweet-tempered Dido can turn on a sixpence and brake alarmingly fast: all very useful for a polo pony. But Rogue is different. He has been difficult since birth, and the older he grows, the more menacing he becomes. His very survival depends on whether Ann and Jim can find the key to him.

What's a woman to do when she catches her boyfriend in the act with her best friend on her antique table... on her birthday?Find the nearest pub in Glasgow to help drown her sorrows, of course. Throw in a bad boy, and she'll accept him as an early Christmas present.What Jenna Meyer doesn't need is to be rescued by a good guy. Or maybe she does. Why else would she wake up in a stranger's bed the next morning and accept his offer that's too good to refuse?Ben Alexander is rebuilding his rugby career in Scotland, far from the heartache he left behind on an African farm.His close-knit family worries about him. Rescuing Jenna gives him the perfect solution to get them off his back. As his fake girlfriend, she will make this Christmas easier to bear. It's a win-win situation for both of them.Can two broken people find some festive cheer and a little hope for the future?